Stranger Quotes - Page 17

I've always loved music, and I've always sought out the stranger things, even in a record you could buy at the mall.

What a powerful thing to know: That one's own desires are mappable onto strangers; that what one finds in oneself will most certainly be found in The Other.

She was no stranger to waiting, after all. Her man had always made her wait.

Know the men who follow you and let them know you. Don't ask your men to die for a stranger.

When I was small, my most serious handicap was a painful bashfulness in the presence of strangers.

Presents of love fear not to be ill taken of strangers.

The wit of a family is usually best received among strangers.

I really value unforgettable moments. Things you can tell people about. We have too few of them in our lives, and it is all too seldom that we can create one such moment for a stranger.

A key ingredient to success, I learned, is relying on not only the kindness of strangers, but the kindness of colleagues.

That’s where proper stories begin, don’t they, when the handsome stranger arrives and everything goes wrong?

Oh - oh, why is it that the members of a family feel privileged to treat one another with a cruelty they would not exhibit to the merest stranger?

You were a stranger to sorrow: therefore Fate has cursed you.

Vaguely at first, then more distinctly, I realized that man is an eternal stranger on this planet.

Avoid banquets which are given by strangers an ignorant persons. But if there is ever occasion to join them, let your attention be carefully fixed, that you slip not into the manner of the vulgar (the uninstructed).

The idea that a prisoner would confess to a complete stranger that he had committed a crime - I just didn't buy that.

I'm not a stranger to high-pressure situations. I've been there, believe me.

Gertrude Stein said, "I write for myself and strangers." I would say I write for myself, strangers and the great dead.

When you go to a club you can talk intimately to strangers you have never met before. And they will tell you things that will be shocking to hear. Because, on the whole, people behave honestly in this situation. At the same time they can be very false.

Of course I loved books more than people. Of course I valued "Jane Eyre" over the anonymous stranger...Of course all of Shakespeare was worth more than a human life.

To get strangers to hate you even faster, crank up the volume on that very interesting ringtone of yours.

Don't talk to strangers. Sure, unless you want to meet anyone ever.

The truth was stranger than the official fiction.

We are not strangers to ourselves, we only try to be.

Most people, I've noticed, are instinctively harsh to strangers. They expect every approach to be an attack, every question to be an interruption.

You can email me, but I prefer letters that come through conventional mail. I like letters that have been licked by strangers.